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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Unna und Amtmann des Amtes Unna-Kamen (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 143 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Inflation-era Notgeld note is dominated by the large denomination "100 Milliarden Mark" printed in bold Gothic letterpress at the upper right. The left side carries a vertical ornamental border with floral vine motifs enclosing the vertical inscriptions "Stadt Unna" and "Amt Unna-Kamen". The main text block states the obligation of the Stadtkasse Unna, Amtskasse Unna-Kamen, and local savings banks to pay the bearer, dated Unna, 25. Oktober 1923, followed by three manuscript facsimile signatures of the issuing authorities and a lower validity clause referencing the Reichsminister der Finanzen. |
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Unna issued this note in the autumn of 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse was moving faster than central supply could follow. The joint authority — municipal Magistrat combined with the rural Amt of Unna-Kamen — reflects the administrative scramble of that moment: towns were pooling resources and issuing authority simply to keep wages payable. G. Hornung was a local commercial printer, not a banknote specialist, pressed into producing emergency currency at a denomination that would have been unthinkable twelve months earlier.
Three signatures — Müller, Brieger, and Lehmhaus — were required to validate issue, an attempt at accountability in a system rapidly losing any.